Podvalny, who was preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, admitted that Zelensky was hired by the deputy head of his office.
MOSCOW, May 3 – RIA Novosti. Viktor Podvalny, who was detained for preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, admitted that Roman Mashovets, deputy head of Vladimir Zelensky’s office, hired him in 2022 in Krakow, Poland, and footage of his interview was published by the Russian FSB.
“I was drafted in June 2022, in mid-June … I went to Poland. I was recruited mainly by military intelligence officer Roman Mashovets, a close friend of the head of the main intelligence agency.” Ukrainian Defense Minister Kirill Budanov, ”said Podvalny.
“I came to Poland by agreement, we phoned. He called me for the first time in March and asked me to come somewhere abroad. After my grandchildren finished school, we went to Krakow with the children, we met there. The place where the recruitment took place,” added Podvalny. According to him, he received the nickname “Socrates” from the Ukrainian military intelligence.
He also explained why he cooperated with Ukrainian military intelligence. The prisoner said, “My sons Aleksey Viktorovich Podvalny, born in 1985, and Oleksandr Viktorovich Podvalny, born in 1987, fled mobilization in Ukraine. This factor became a catalyst for me to cooperate with Ukrainian intelligence.”
The FSB said on Wednesday that the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine uncovered its agents who were planning a series of terrorist attacks in Crimea, including Podvalny. Among the targets were the head of the Crimea Sergei Aksyonov, the parliamentary speaker Vladimir Konstantinov, the Mayor of Yalta Yanina Pavlenko and the transport infrastructure of the peninsula. Roman Mashovets, deputy head of Zelensky’s office, was called the direct organizer of the attacks.
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